Spoiler Alert: Liberace enjoyed extravagance without microscope of public

6:25 PM,
Sep. 19, 2013

Entertainer Liberace is seated at his piano in his Beverly Hills home in California on June 17, 1961.

Written by

Todd Hill
News Journal

Although certain professions or living situations have always tended to encourage a solitary lifestyle, it's harder today to remain cut off from society.

At least that was my observation after watching "Behind the Candelabra," a Steven Soderbergh film that aired this year on HBO (becoming available on home video this week) that looks at several key years in the life of the late entertainer Liberace.

To a large extent, Wladzio Valentino Liberace (or Lee, as he was known to his friends) was forced to maintain a secretive lifestyle because of his homosexuality, something that even in the ...